1. George Brent is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.
36 Facts About George Brent
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George Brent's father was a shopkeeper and his mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.
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George Brent fled Ireland with a bounty set on his head by the British government, although he later claimed only to have been a courier for guerrilla leader and tactician Michael Collins.
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George Brent travelled from England to Canada and returned to the United States in August 1921.
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George Brent made his Broadway debut in director Guthrie McClintic's The Dover Road.
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George Brent did numerous plays throughout the 1920s, including running several of his own stock companies.
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George Brent appeared in productions of Abie's Irish Rose, Stella Dallas, Up in Mabel's Room, Elmer the Great, Seventh Heaven, White Cargo and Lilac Time.
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George Brent acted in stock companies at Elitch Theatre, in Denver, Colorado, as well as Rhode Island, Florida, and Massachusetts.
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George Brent moved to Hollywood and made his first film for 20th Century Fox, Under Suspicion.
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George Brent continued in supporting roles for Fox in Once a Sinner, Fair Warning, and Charlie Chan Carries On.
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George Brent appeared in The Rich Are Always with Us with Ruth Chatterton, in which Davis again had a supporting role.
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George Brent returned to supporting female stars: Kay Francis in The Keyhole, Chatterton in both Lilly Turner and Female, and Stanwyck in Baby Face.
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George Brent was top billed in Housewife with Bette Davis, who was his co star.
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George Brent was leading man to Jean Muir in Desirable then MGM used him for The Painted Veil with Greta Garbo.
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George Brent supported Josephine Hutchinson in The Right to Live, Francis in Living on Velvet and Stranded.
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George Brent then made two films with Davis, where she was top billed: Front Page Woman and Special Agent.
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George Brent appeared in The Goose and the Gander with Kay Francis, then was borrowed by RKO to make In Person with Ginger Rogers.
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George Brent made Mountain Justice with Hutchinson and The Go Getter with Anita Louise.
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George Brent made Gold Is Where You Find It with Olivia de Havilland, then made Jezebel with Davis - only he was the second male lead, with Henry Fonda playing Davis' main love interest.
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George Brent was in the military drama Wings of the Navy with de Havilland and John Payne.
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George Brent appeared in Dark Victory with Davis, which was a huge success.
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George Brent was Merle Oberon's leading man in 'Til We Meet Again, then starred in The Man Who Talked Too Much and South of Suez.
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George Brent supported Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three and Davis in The Great Lie.
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George Brent made one final film with Davis, In This Our Life, alongside de Havilland.
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George Brent supported Stanwyck in The Gay Sisters and was top-billed in You Can't Escape Forever with Brenda Marshall and Silver Queen with Priscilla Lane.
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In 1942, George Brent, an accomplished pilot who had tried and, because of age, failed to enlist in the armed services, temporarily retired from films to teach flying as a civilian flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and later became a pilot in the US Coast Guard for the duration of the war.
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George Brent returned to RKO for The Spiral Staircase, a huge success.
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George Brent was one of several names in Christmas Eve for Benedict Bogeaus and Luxury Liner at MGM, a remake of the 1933 film in which George Brent had appeared.
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George Brent went to Republic to star in Angel on the Amazon and in Universal's Red Canyon played the father of the star, Ann Blyth.
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George Brent supported Colbert in Bride for Sale at RKO.
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George Brent was cast in the lead in the 1956 television series Wire Service, which ran for 39 performances.
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In 1960, George Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars.
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George Brent received a motion-pictures star located at 1709 Vine Street and a second star located at 1612 Vine Street for his work in television.
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George Brent was married five times: to Helen Louise Campbell, Ruth Chatterton, Constance Worth, Ann Sheridan, and Janet Michaels.
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George Brent had an affair with Bette Davis, a frequent Warner Bros.
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George Brent suffered from emphysema and died of natural causes in 1979 in Solana Beach, California.